
Senior Engineer - Data Ingestion
CTC Lateral1 day ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the quality, reliability, and overall health of large-scale source data pipelines.
- Partner with traders and quantitative researchers to understand stakeholder needs and data usage.
- Design reliable and efficient approaches for sourcing and delivering required data.
- Optimize pipelines to improve service-level performance and reduce compute and storage usage.
- Migrate pipelines to modern data platforms and hardware and improve future migration processes.
- Collaborate with the broader data organization to improve platform functionality.
- Detect source data quality issues and build tools with data owners to surface and resolve them before downstream users are affected.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines, ideally at hundreds-of-terabytes to petabytes scale.
- Strong software architecture and large-scale system design skills.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and object-oriented languages such as Python.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider, including AWS, Azure, or GCP, and/or HPC workloads.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment.
- Experience with tick capture, market data, or trading industry data is preferred.
- C++ experience is preferred.
- Experience with data observability and data quality tooling is preferred.
- Experience with open table formats such as Iceberg or Delta and query engines such as Trino, Spark, or DuckDB is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Hybrid workplace model for most teams, subject to change based on business need.
- Generous time off, insurance coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch, healthy snacks, wellness reimbursement, and other employee benefits.
Categories
Data Engineering